The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica
On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/the-enduring-metal-genius-of-metallica
For Metallica, the idea was never to seduce an audience, but to push it away. The fans who stuck around—who perhaps understood this as a kind of love—became devoted, and received devotion in return.